Word: virginals
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What makes the protesters off-target is that Zeffirelli's Jesus is very much the familiar run of DeMille. Jesus of Nazareth matter-of-factly presents a man, born of a virgin Mary, who rises again from the grave and appears bodily to his disciples. Nor does the film shy away from the miracles. It unquestioningly depicts the feeding of the 5,000, the raising of Lazarus and several healings. It does avoid some miracles, e.g., the walking on water, that would be difficult to portray realistically. At the trial before the Sanhedrin, the High Priest Caiaphas asks Jesus...
...present a complex personality who chats amiably with the rabbis on whether "the Sabbath is made for man," but who also swings a heavy club to smash the money-changers' booths in the Temple. Olivia Hussey, who at age 15 played Juliet for Zeffirelli, is a winsomely girlish Virgin Mary who suffers real labor pains and is the object of respect, though not veneration, during Jesus' lifetime...
Philip Glass: North Star (Virgin Records). Nothing happens in the usual sense. Glass composes by an additive process. Short melodies are repeated dozens, even hundreds of times, while new elements are gradually introduced and events are kept to a minimum. The composer writes for amplified keyboards, winds and voices, using as tools of his craft a pulsating rhythm, overlapping figures and a moving chromatic bass line. The overall effect is soothing, with strong yet not dogmatic liturgical overtones. Fans of German rock groups may spot similarities between Glass and Kraftwerk. Those classically oriented will think of Johann Pachelbel...
...There. Robinson has long been one of England's more distinguished New Testament critics, rather on the conservative side but no literalist on such matters as Christ's miracles or the virgin birth. He became famous, however, through his 1963 bestseller, Honest to God, which set teacups rattling in many a rectory. Like America's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike, he scandalized the pious by belittling "our images of God as a Being 'up there.' " His book also advocated what was called "the New Morality," rejecting absolute rules of right and wrong. After he resigned...
...teacher, who had a particularly intense dislike for Simone, her daring philosophical syntheses and her belligerent leftism, labelled her the "Red Virgin." When she received her teaching certificate, he arranged to have the Education ministry refuse her a post in the industrial, union-base cities she had requested, and to have her sent instead to a small town called Le Puy in central France. (This professor is rumored to have said, "we'll send her...as far away as possible so that we shall never hear of her again...